Old school tech geeks! I need some textmode help ..

So this is kind of an odd question, but I'd love it if someone could help me out here.

The command prompt window in XP ..is there any way to set it up so it displays text/ANSI using origional MS-DOS colours and dimensions? It's kinda hard to explain, I'll show you what I mean. I'll load up aciddraw (old school ANSI editor) as an example:

This is how it should look:
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This is how it actually looks using the command prompt in XP:


I've got DOSbox running, but the thing is I don't want to emulate the whole MS-DOS environment, I just want textmode stuff displayed properly. Anyone have any ideas?

leet.as.fuck

IMO the only way to properly display ANSI is to use the text-mode of your video card, but with XP and the like the mode is not 80x25 even when you hit Alt-Enter in a command window.

Give ACiDView for Win a go: http://www.acid.org/newsinfo.html

From there you can dump it to a pic, and I reckon the coolest feature is you can simulate watching an ANSI receive at say 2400 baud 

memories..

leet.as.fuck

IMO the only way to properly display ANSI is to use the text-mode of your video card, but with XP and the like the mode is not 80x25 even when you hit Alt-Enter in a command window.

Give ACiDView for Win a go: http://www.acid.org/newsinfo.html

From there you can dump it to a pic, and I reckon the coolest feature is you can simulate watching an ANSI receive at say 2400 baud 

memories..

I have ACiDView ..those are both screen grabs from my own computer 

Thing is, the first one in run in DOSbox, the other one is just straight from the desktop. DOSbox does a great job of being a DOS emulator, but the problem is if I want to telnet somewhere from the command promt while I'm in it I can't because it's an XP app and doesn't run under MS-DOS at all. And I really, really can't be fucked installing packet drivers and configuring SLIP/PPP shit to run sshDos (or Telemate, or Telix or any dialer software).

Nevermind!

syncTERM

Oh yeah ..awesome little telnet client with perfect ANSI emulation. I am in BBS heaven.

Now, to try and remember how to convert .ans files to BBS menus. 

 The best thing about this thread is that no matter how much of a geek I am, I will never be as geeky as Griff and Myles.
 

HAHAHAHA

 

Which BBS soft u runnin Griff? Iniquity2?

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Which BBS soft u runnin Griff? Iniquity2?

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Nah mate. obv/2

Know of any good telnet hosts?

Telnet host as in TCPIP FOSSIL/comport emulator?

Telnet host as in TCPIP FOSSIL/comport emulator?

Yeah, I wasn't quite sure how I'd go about putting software that old online, I thought you might need some kind of server app. But yeah, got a nice virtual FOSSIL driver now so a bit of fiddling and it should be OK.

Now, back to the menus, I forgot how many fucking ANSI's you had to do